The Quanser 2 DOF Ball Balancer module is a vision-based control experiment designed to teach intermediate to advanced control concepts and to demonstrate real-world control challenges.
Control Systems
The standard in controls teaching and research.
Modeling & controls lie at the core of emerging technological breakthroughs. From drones to reusable rockets to self-driving vehicles, the fundamentals of modeling & control are a critical skill for engineers to compete and innovate.
Process Control
The modern industrial systems that are fundamental to modern automation and manufacturing processes require specialized control systems to perform and manage their daily operations. Quanser offers a variety of plants that can be used to teach the key elements of modern process control including cascade control with the Maglev and Ball and Beam systems as well as regulator design with the Coupled Tanks.
Classic Systems Control
The classic progression of control systems education begins with the fundamentals of modeling and designing control plants for linear systems. Quanser offers a diverse collection of plants that can be used as ideal platforms to offer students experience using classic control principles. These plants offer basic dynamics that range from rotary to linear motion.
Modern Systems Control
Quanser has a collection of plants that can be used to show how a modern approach to control systems allows for the creation of precise controllers for complex systems with higher-order dynamics. These plants include both dynamically complex plants such as the linear inverted pendulum, and double pendulum, as well as plants such as the active suspension that require the use of both state-space modeling to express the complex coupled dynamics of the system.
Unstable Systems
Some of the most exciting emerging technologies from bipedal walking robots to reusable rockets requires the design of controllers for unstable systems. Quanser offers several plants that give students an experience creating control systems for directly analogous dynamic systems.
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Item Number:782474-01The 2 DOF Inverted Pendulum/Gantry module is ideal to introduce more advanced principles of robotics. You can use it to demonstrate real-world control challenges encountered in aerospace engineering applications, such as rocket stabilization during takeoff.
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The 2 DOF Robot module is ideal to introduce students to the fundamental and intermediate principles of robotics. You can use it to demonstrate real-world control challenges, such as pick-and-place robots used in manufacturing lines.
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The principles demonstrated by the Quanser 3 DOF Gyroscope are relevant in technologies used to control orientation in sea, air and space vehicles.
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The Active Suspension Experiment teaches cutting-edge technology that has brought a new generation of vehicles to life.
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The Coupled Tanks system is a process control experiment ideal for teaching and research of control topics related to liquid level control.
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Item Number:appThe Experience Controls app is a unique interactive mobile textbook introducing students to control systems fundamentals in an engaging way, through accessible language, real-time dynamic simulations, and self-directed learning. The accompanying instructor resources allow educators to easily implement Experience Controls into any new or existing control systems course.
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Item Number:782484-01The double inverted pendulum represents a complex challenge with real-world applications that include stabilizing the takeoff of a multi-stage rocket and modeling the human posture system.
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Item Number:782487-01The linear flexible inverted pendulum challenges students to gain advanced modeling and control experience by controlling both the damping of a flexible link, and an unstable inverted pendulum.
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Item Number:782490-01The Linear Flexible Joint experiment will help your students learn how to model and control real-world dynamic systems such as flexible couplings and gearboxes.
